#journal assignment

[viola-sororia]

first class news paleontologists never disappoint

[racoonstudies]

9-01-2025

The sensitive suffer more; but they love more, and dream more.

🎧: Yellow by Coldplay 💛

[excelsior-and-exy]

wymack every time neil (attitude problem) josten gets infront of the press

[idontmindifuforgetme]

Honestly I know April will be my month because I can feel the hope of spring in the air & physical journaling is making a comeback for me & I’m studying the thing that I love & I have a kind therapist who seems truly attuned to my specific needs and background & I don’t take people’s vitriol personally & I have a solid core unit of friends & I hit the gym and move my body & I take my multivitamins & I stick to my calendar religiously & I take hikes & bike through nature regularly & I try to tap into my likes and wants and who I really am as much as I can despite what people have to say about that & I don’t let people’s naysaying stop me

[bread--quest]

hey.

do you like weird obscure bits of history? do you like first hand accounts of historical events? do you like getting emails from 1800s real estate agents in distress? do you know what the aroostook war is? do you want to?

maybe you should subscribe to my substack! i had to read this journal for school, and then i got really overinvested, and now i'm dragging you all down with me! updates start TOMORROW but will be really really short for the first few days so you won't miss much if you forget it's okay. it's alright. i love you

sign up to get emails from my new historical blorbo who's so obscure he doesn't even have a wikipedia page

[cockroachparty]

i love to write. it is my most favorite hobby. talking is really fun too. i love sharing my thoughts and opinions and while also hearing others thoughts and opinions. writing is a safe haven, a quick way to share my thoughts with others. the words flow effortlessly from my brain down to my fingertips, with such quick succession.

except when its an assignment.

give me a roleplay prompt and i'll write it within 5 minutes. tell me to give a funny review for an amazon product and i'll have it down in 10.

but giving me a paragraph assignment? on a chapter of a book i dont care for?

end of the world. end of my life. end of my schooling career. cant do it. no i cant. suddenly every single word and vocabulary term i once knew is vanquished from my mind and i can no longer form a coherent opinion or sentence. might as well just give me the F now. take me out back and shoot me i guess do it in front of a live audience too, why not. who cares.

[macadamiastudies]

Dec. 21st, 2024

Day 11/150 of growth

So proud of myself today, it's been a busy day since the second I woke up; I have some cousins coming over for Christmas so the first half of the day has been sprucing up the house, buying presents, errands, etc. I spent the second half of the day studying at a coffee shop (which I'm still at as I write this).

What I got done today:

🕯️Did all the problems on "The LeetCode Beginner's Guide" (probably should've started with that, it's all so clear now) 🕯️Did a bunch of Linked Lists practice (videos and questions) 🕯️Finished 'SmartCuts' (it was AMAZING- love all the examples) 🕯️Continued in re-structuring my portfolio (on paper at this point; not feeling confident enough in the content yet) 🕯️An hour of Azure prep 🕯️30 minutes of GMAT prep 🕯️Cleaned my whiteboard (y'all I left some writing on it for the last 3 MONTHS- IT TOOK 30 MIN TO CLEAN) 🕯️Went to the mall and bought a bunch of gifts 🕯️Installed and cleaned my shelf

To-do tomorrow

📜Journal for next week and everything i'd like done by then 📜5 more problems from 'LeetCode easy' 📜Hashmaps in python 📜Wrap up my portfolio design 📜2 hours of Azure 📜Look into some python libraries for web dev 📜Read 'unlimited memory' - 30 minutes 📜Package the gifts I bought yesterday 📜Deep clean every inch of my room 📜Hang up pictures in my room (BECause they all keep falling) 📜Back up all the photos on my phone

Playlist for the day:

[cmchill]

I know I'm not what I produce. But my inability to write lab reports in time has really bitten my lab partners twice this semester, saddling them with unnecessary amounts of work and stress. I don't know what to do.

[strawberrybyers]

posted on facebook an image from one of the sets of stranger things to see if any of my 80’s babies/children/teens/adults fam members or whoever might be familiar with the lore and give me the insight.

i wrote out the post so formal though so they couldn’t get a whiff of the fact i am not asking because i intend to write an article for cinemablend but instead for my tumblr blog so my fellow mentally ill queers and i can go insane over a piece of prop to prove one of the hundreds of theories we all have ping ponging between us

[sleepy-vix]

i hate studying science so much but apparently being good at science means that you're smart and i want to be perceived as smart so the grind continues, i'm afraid

[sapphicacademic]

hi everyone. essays are hard. working as an English tutor, I've started to realize how hard those can be. here is Mickie's Guide To Essays (basic). It has pretty much all the rules I follow, and i do pretty damn well in english. Yipee.

[the-gayest-show]

I think about the fact my dentist used to go to my high school a lot

Like. Yesterday we had a HUGE music event and I'm playing violin for that, right? But he's there. Like I saw him in this event. How he found out about it i have no idea. This man is like. In his 40s. How are you in contact with the school events? Why do you know this? You graduated before I was even born???

Nah because seeing your dentist at a school event is wild. Like what do I say to that. Last year both his father and my dentist were there (the father is also a dentist in the same place but he died last yr) so like. Dude.

[aleixis]

my entire personality btw

[cinematicnomad]

I googled We Keep the Dead Close a little and was intrigued! Can you tell me what you liked about it?

oh yey!! i'm always happy to rave about a book i've enjoyed, so i can totally share my thoughts with you :)

we keep the dead close: a murder at harvard and a half century of silence is less a standard true crime book, and more half memoir and half a chronicling of the author's meticulous research process. as an undergrad at harvard, becky cooper, heard repeated tellings of a near mythic campus legend: of a nameless female grad student who had an affair with a tenured archaeology professor in the '60s who murdered her in a ritualistic manner and got away with it thanks to the omnipotent powers-that-be at harvard and the case remained unsolved ever after.

the story stayed with cooper until she felt compelled to learn all that she could over the course of the next decade. to untangle the truth from the cautionary tales that were whispered in the hallowed hallways of harvard. the very beginning of this story starts with the uncovering of a name: jane britton, who was so much more than the victim she became in the final moments of her life. and then it unfurls from there: not just to the facts surrounding the murder, but also the intimate details that make up a life, both loved and lost, and the surrounding culture that could allow this silence to perpetuate for decades while recognizing the power structures that still thrive in today's world.

this book is an exhaustive record of cooper's research efforts—the archives she dug through, the events she snuck into, the websites she trawled, the doors she knocked on, the people who would and wouldn't talk to her, the jobs she accepted and turned down to help her make the time to tell this story—but also an examination of her own biases and motives. how we affect the stories that are told and how we tell them, and also the ways in which we, explicitly or not, try to force facts to fit into familiar narrative story beats. it's also concerned with the power structures in the world of academia, specifically at harvard, that so often protect powerful men at the expense of vulnerable women, no matter how talented and promising and innocent, all in the name of reputation and tradition.

potential suspects rise and fall away like waves crashing on a shore as cooper and those who loved jane try to make sense of the violence that ended her life so young, but this is not a book that is confined to the whodunit nature of most true crime tales. rather, cooper is more compelled to tell jane's story in a way that both honors jane and is honest about her.

if you like non-fiction, have ever enjoyed true crime, and have some time to devote yourself to a 400+ page book, i highly recommend we keep the dead close. the case was solved in 2018 while cooper was still writing the story (though perhaps some answers bring forth only more questions), but i recommend against googling the case beforehand and instead letting the experience wash over you.

[tardis--dreams]

There's been interesting developments at work and i need to do a lot of work for university so i think tonight is the Perfect time to finish beyond evil

[mexashepot]

I have no words.

Edit, the actual locations to those are not familiar: